followed links tracking

[Binky]

Can anyone recommend a script or remotely hosted service that will provide detailed reports on what links are clicked on my web site?

[dank]

I'm not aware of any service that will do what you want without some work on your part.[nbsp][nbsp]I can think of 3 options, two of them fairly distinct:

1) Using something like AXS hit logging, you can view reports on what pages were viewed throughout your site, as well as following traffic from page to page (time consuming if you want to look at the big picture).[nbsp][nbsp]This would require setting up all your pages to call the AXS program on page load...[nbsp][nbsp]The same could be done with any number of logging programs, but that's the one I'm most familiar with.

2) Use a link indexing script such as Gossamer Threads' Links.[nbsp][nbsp]That would count all the clicks on any of the links contained therein, but it would also mean you need to present all your links in categorical fashion of copy the jump ID to other pages of your site.

2b) Probably wouldn't be too tough to put together a program that simply increments hits to specified links, similar to #2 above.[nbsp][nbsp]A ready-made option is LnkinLite (http://www.dtp-aus.com/cgiscript/lnkinlte.shtml), although I found it requires a good deal of modification to be truly useful, and the documentation could not make things any more difficult...

Dan

[Binky]

I had a look at AXS but there's no installation help as far as I can tell.

[dank]

Do you mean help in terms of assistance or instructions?[nbsp][nbsp]There is pretty extensive (and confusing) documentation included with the program, and I think it's located on the site, too.

Dan

[Keller]

A remotely hosted one is http://www.linkcounter.com
A php script: http://www.ftls.org/en/examples/php/clicks_counter.php3

No idea if or how they work, but it might be worth a shot.

[Maynard]

I'm guessing that this could be accomplished by coding each link to run through a 'redirector' script which could log any envars and dispatch the remote client to the requested destination.

[Binky]

A remotely hosted one is http://www.linkcounter.com

I'm trying this one out and so far it seems to work very well. I'd prefer to not use a remotely hosted service but until I figure out an easier way this does the trick.

Thanks for the feedback.